[[{"projectID":"00983","ProjTitle":"(IM404004060)-UNEP OzonAction Programme - ROA's portfolio including Multilateral Fund projects approved from ExCom 41 through 47.","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"

Project's managing division is unspecified<\/p>\n","ActualStartDate":"","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2003-12-31","EndDate":"2007-12-31","ProjectManager":"Jeremy Bazye","ProjectManagerEmail":"Jeremy.Bazye@unep.org","regions":null,"subprogrammes":null}],[{"projectID":"01036","ProjTitle":"(43-P3) - Institutional arrangements for the governance of shared natural resources and transboundary environmental issues: Transboundary Institutional Mechanisms (TIM)","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"UNEP’s convening power at the sub-regional and regional levels gives it a unique position to link regional\/sub-regional issues to the national level, thus increasing coherence in the management of natural resources\/ecosystems by the countries concerned as well as long-term sustainability.\r\n\r\nIn response to priorities emanating from regional, subregional intergovernmental and other forums, the objective of this project is to facilitate regional and subregional institutional arrangements to address common interests in shared natural resources and transboundary ecosystems. The geographical focus is on a selected number of seas, river basins and lakes as well as shared terrestrial ecosystems in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and West Asia. \r\n\r\nThe project will achieve its objective through 3 components with different levels of engagement depending on the status of governance of the particular shared natural resource or ecosystem:\r\n 1.\tWhere no transboundary institutional mechanism exists for a threatened ecosystem, UNEP will support initial dialogues among governments that share an ecosystem in order to create an enabling environment for future cooperation, including through broader regional and sub-regional forums and economic commissions.\r\n 2.\tWhere an institutional mechanism already exists, UNEP will strengthen its capacity in order to make its operations more effective. \r\n 3.\tWhere a dialogue has among countries has already taken place successfully, UNEP will assist in the development of a new transboundary institutional mechanism.","ActualStartDate":"2010-08-06","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2010-07-01","EndDate":"2013-12-31","ProjectManager":"Jochem Zoetelief","ProjectManagerEmail":"Jochem.Zoetelief@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"}]}],[{"projectID":"01043","ProjTitle":"Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP)","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) was launched in 2001 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to help lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans in Africa and Asia. The partnership is a unique mix of United Nations agencies, governments (mainly the great ape range States), donors, international and national great ape conservation Non–Governmental Organizations, the global great ape scientific community and private sector organizations. It is led by UNEP and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). \n \nThere are 23 great ape range States in Africa and Southeast Asia of which, 13 are Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and 10 which are either conflict or post-conflict States. Governments and civil society actors in these States are faced with serious capacity, material and funding constraints which limit to a great extent the effectiveness of their biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management efforts. \n\nIn order to respond to the prevailing situation, the GRASP partnership focuses on national-level capacity building for assessing biodiversity critical to ecosystem function and resilience as well as developing, testing and implementing tools and methodologies for the protection of Great Apes and the conservation of the landscapes and ecosystems they inhabit. This is inline with the 2010-2011 programme of work under the Ecosystem Management subprogramme.\n\nThis project will provide direct support to protected area authorities at the national-level and indirect support through awareness raising, sharing of lessons learned (e.g. on landscape planning, conflict sensitive approaches to conservation, monitoring, etc.) whereas generation and dissemination of knowledge on best practices and awareness raising will target all of the 23 range States. Management tools will be availed and utilized at a regional and global-level. \n\nBy undertaking these initiatives, the GRASP partnership will continue to position itself as a leading international platform for the management and implementation of Great Ape conservation projects. \n","ActualStartDate":"2010-11-25","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2010-08-01","EndDate":"2014-06-30","ProjectManager":"Douglas Cress","ProjectManagerEmail":"Douglas.Cress@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"}]}],[{"projectID":"01554","ProjTitle":"Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (\"the Coalition\")","ProjStatus":"Ongoing","ProjSummary":"UNEP is one of the founding partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants, hereafter referred to as “the Coalition”, which was launched in February 2012. The main objective of the Coalition is to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) to significantly reduce the rate of global warming over the next two to four decades, prevent millions of premature deaths and avoid the annual loss of more than 30 million tons of crops. \r\nThe proposed project seeks to reduce SLCPs by: (1) raising awareness of SLCP impacts and mitigation strategies; (2) enhancing and developing new national and regional actions, including by identifying and overcoming barriers, enhancing capacity, and mobilizing support; (3) promoting best practices and showcasing successful efforts; and (4) improving scientific understanding of SLCP impacts and mitigation strategies. UNEP hosts the Coalition’s Secretariat in Paris, manages its Trust Fund and will implement an array of actions funded by the Coalition. The Coalition is a partnership of governments, intergovernmental organizations, and other members of civil society, that are committed to accelerating and incentivizing action to address key SLCPs. The proposed project is in line with UNEP’s Climate Change Subprogramme 2012-13 as approved by the Governing Council given their significant climate benefits. It fits specifically under the POW (Programme Of Work) output 3 of the mitigation technology programme namely EA(b): Knowledge networks and United Nations partnerships to inform and support key stakeholders, and also fits with Decision 26\/1 of the Governing Council which “Invites the Executive Director, by engaging appropriate institutions, research networks and other partners, to continue the assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme of short-lived climate pollutants and to keep under review emerging science and to update governments, international organizations and other stakeholders”. \r\n","ActualStartDate":"2012-09-18","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2012-07-01","EndDate":"2022-12-31","ProjectManager":"Kaveh Zahedi","ProjectManagerEmail":"Kaveh.Zahedi@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"}]}],[{"projectID":"01579","ProjTitle":"Promoting integrated water catchment management to improve urban drinking water supply in the DR Congo and the Central African region","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"","ActualStartDate":"2013-03-12","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2013-03-01","EndDate":"2016-02-28","ProjectManager":"Hassan Partow","ProjectManagerEmail":"Hassan.Partow@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"}]}],[{"projectID":"01769","ProjTitle":"Tools and approaches to support countries in incorporating multiple benefits, green economy and green investment in REDD+ planning","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"This UNEP project outlines UNEP’s work and long-standing commitment under the broader UN-REDD Programme which was launched in 2008, is ongoing, and is expected to continue at least until year 2020. The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The Programme builds on the convening role and combined technical expertise of FAO, UNDP and UNEP, each providing support to well-defined technical areas of the programme. This UNEP project describes the specific tasks pertaining to UNEP within the overarching UN-REDD Programme. The project fits within the current UN-REDD Programme Strategy 2011-2015, and therefore actions in the first two years of the project (2014-2015) are well-defined, while subsequent years will be planned in more detail in accordance with the forthcoming strategy (2016-2020) which will take into account the external evaluation and audit (both on-going).The UN-REDD Programme supports nationally-led REDD+ processes and promotes the informed and meaningful involvement of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities, in national and international REDD+ implementation. The expected impact of the Programme is to help partner countries establish sufficient capacity at all levels to design and implement results-based REDD+ actions and use their own natural resources in ways that maximize poverty reduction. The Programme reflects the outcomes and opportunities of the Cancun and Warsaw Agreements on REDD+ as well as the need to scale up REDD+ actions and finance. The UN-REDD Programme provides technical support to countries in six interlinked work areas: (i) Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) and monitoring; (ii) National REDD+ governance; (iii) Transparent, equitable and accountable management of REDD+ funds; (iv) Engagement of Indigenous Peoples (IP), civil society and other stakeholders; (v) Ensuring multiple benefits of forests and REDD+; (vi) REDD+ as a catalyst for transformations to a green economy through the Global Programme – Support to National Action and National Programmes. UNEP leads on the last two work areas and therefore this project focuses on those areas with the recognition of their linkages to the areas led by the other agencies. ","ActualStartDate":"2014-10-09","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2014-01-01","EndDate":"2017-12-31","ProjectManager":"Thais Narciso","ProjectManagerEmail":"Thais.Narciso@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"}]}],[{"projectID":"01944","ProjTitle":"Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP)","ProjStatus":"Completed","ProjSummary":"The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) was launched in 2001 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to help ensure the permanent survival of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans and their habitat in Africa and Asia. GRASP is a unique alliance of national governments, research institutions, United Nations (UN) agencies, conservation organizations, and private sector supporters. The GRASP Secretariat is co-hosted by UNEP and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).\r\n\r\nGreat apes face numerous threats, including habitat loss, illegal hunting, disease, and illegal trade, among others. These threats are addressed through GRASP’s six thematic components and by a combination of 1.) intervention at a high political level; 2.) policy work and collection and contribution to best practices and lessons learned; and 3.) direct support to development planning processes in great ape range States. The six GRASP thematic components (“advocacy,” “law enforcement and judiciary,” “response to disease threats,” “habitat protection and enhancement,” “conflict-sensitive conservation” and “Green Economy”) reflect this multi-disciplinary approach. \r\n\r\nGRASP addresses global threats to great ape populations and habitats by leveraging the collective resources of its partners. GRASP assesses the state of biodiversity critical to ecosystem function and resilience and develops, tests, and implements tools and methodologies to raise national capacity for the protection of great apes and the landscapes and ecosystems they inhabit. These outputs are in line with the 2014-2015 and the 2016-2017 programme of work under the Ecosystem Management sub-programme, and UNEP’s Medium Term Strategy.\r\n\r\nGRASP employs a variety of tools and methodologies to achieve the greatest possible impact on behalf of great ape conservation. GRASP provides direct support to protected area authorities at the national level in all 23 range States, and indirect support through awareness raising, training and sharing of lessons learned on key topics (e.g. on land-use planning, conflict-sensitive approaches to conservation, payment for ecosystem services, judiciary and law enforcement, etc.). GRASP utilizes political advocacy, media, and alliances to achieve the broadest possible results at the regional and global level. The GRASP Secretariat raises an average of USD 1-2 million per annum, not counting matching funds made available by GRASP partners for the implementation of joint projects. More than 50 GRASP Secretariat-funded field projects have been initiated and implemented by GRASP partners across Equatorial Africa and Southeast Asia. There are a number of transboundary and large scale land-use planning processes in Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal, the Mayombe countries (Angola, Congo and DR Congo), and Senegal which would not have happened without GRASP’s engagement. \r\n\r\nBy undertaking these initiatives, GRASP continues to position itself among the leading and innovative international platforms for the management and implementation of great ape conservation projects and for the development and promotion of best practice guidelines. \r\n \r\n","ActualStartDate":"2016-02-19","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2016-02-01","EndDate":"2018-12-31","ProjectManager":"Douglas Cress","ProjectManagerEmail":"Douglas.Cress@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"}]}],[{"projectID":"01954","ProjTitle":"UN Peace Operations Rapid Environment and Climate Technical Assistance Facility - REACT","ProjStatus":"Ongoing","ProjSummary":"The purpose of this project is to promote the mainstreaming of environmental sustainability in the UN system, focusing in particular on peacekeeping operations, by supporting the United Nations Department of Field Support (DFS) in their efforts to improve their own environmental and energy performance. DFS currently directly involves approximately 165,500 people, and has an annual budget in the order of US$8.37 billion. DFS has explicitly requested this support and is processing an associated US$6.9 million Administrative Arrangement.\r\n\r\nPeacekeeping operations are international missions mandated by the UN Security Council to operate in specific countries and parts of countries for specific periods. The mandates range in length from 2 – 68 years, with the median duration of the field missions being 13 years. The operations usually take place in locations with a fragile environment and a serious lack of infrastructure. The environmental footprint of UN Peacekeeping Operations is expected to be large but it is not benchmarked against any specific standard or other organization and is considered to have significant room for improvement in a large number of critical areas. UN Peace operations represents over 50% of the current UN system Climate Footprint and as such are instrumental in reaching the UN wide target of Climate Neutrality by 2020 that is demanded by the Secretary General and the UN Chief Executive Board.\r\n\r\nTo support DFS in reducing such footprint UNEP will act in the role of an in-house technical assistance (TA) team and will provide expertise to support DFS in planning, designing, financing and implementing a range of actions that will cumulatively result in a substantial and permanent reduction in the environmental footprint. The funding for implementing these actions in DFS will come from the field missions’ own budget, not the project budget, which is dedicated to the TA. \r\n\r\nThe project will be integrated with the broader implementation of the UN climate neutral strategy demanding the UN system as a whole to become Climate Neutral and more sustainable by 2020. Furthermore the lessons and technical solutions learned from the project, for its strategic importance and dimensions will allow other field based organizations such as WFP, UNICEF or UNOPS itself to improve their environmental management in an harmonized manner. \r\n\r\nFrom an institutional point of view, the project is considered to serve both the Disasters and Conflicts (DC) Sub-programme but its implementation will also benefit the Environmental Governance (EG) one which oversees –via the Environment Management Group and the Sustainable UN (SUN) projects (respectively EG 413.1 and EG 413.2)- the harmonization of environmental practices in UN management and operations. \r\n\r\nThe project will be implemented by a highly mobile core team of 2 UNEP staff, supported by 6 consultants and 2nd tier in-house and external support, with UNOPS providing project services.\r\n","ActualStartDate":"2016-07-21","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2016-06-01","EndDate":"2021-06-30","ProjectManager":"Andrew Morton ","ProjectManagerEmail":"morton@un.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"}]}],[{"projectID":"01983","ProjTitle":"Rapid Environmental Assistance for Crisis Affected Countries","ProjStatus":"Ongoing","ProjSummary":"Since the start of the new millennium, the world has witnessed some 2,500 disasters and over 40 major conflicts. Over two billion people have been affected, and millions have lost their lives. There are multiple linkages between environment and disasters and conflicts. Environmental destruction can trigger or contribute to disasters or conflicts. Conflict and disasters in turn can severely damage the environment. The environment also plays a crucial role over the entire cycle of crisis preparedness, response and recovery. By their very nature such disasters and conflicts are often hard to predict, and the window for effective response by UN Environment is often very short. \r\nThrough rapid deployment of environmental assistance, this project seeks to support crisis-affected countries to respond to and recover from environmental impacts of disasters and conflicts \r\nFor over 15 years, UN Environment has been effectively deploying its technical expertise to this effect. Activities through this project will be demand-driven, based on a request from a member state or UN partner. UN Environment’s assistance will therefore take a variety of forms, depending on the established need, such as:\r\n•\tRapid environmental assessments and provision of impartial information\r\n•\tDevelopment of plans for crisis response or recovery\r\n•\tTechnical support for clean-up and rehabilitation, mediation and peace processes\r\n•\tEarly stage design and mobilization of country programmes. \r\nOverall, this project will play a key role helping rapidly address the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts, both in the short-term and as a bridge towards long-term action. It will provide UN Environment with the flexibility it needs to respond swiftly to member states’ needs and helps to respond to an audit requirement from the Office of Internal Oversight Services for a mechanism for the more rapid provision of environmental expertise in the event of crisis. \r\n","ActualStartDate":"2017-09-08","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2017-06-01","EndDate":"2022-06-30","ProjectManager":"Hassan Partow","ProjectManagerEmail":"Hassan.Partow@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Global"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"}]}],[{"projectID":"02035","ProjTitle":" (PPP) -Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP)\u2013 innovative tool to improve livelihoods through the conservation of great apes as flagship species","ProjStatus":"Ongoing","ProjSummary":"The current GRASP Project Document expires on 31 December 2018. The justification for this Project Preparation Proposal (PPP) is that during January-June 2019, the GRASP Secretariat will be running a preparatory phase during which consultations are organised with the stakeholders. These consultations inform the design of the full project. Additionally, during the preparatory phase, implementation of necessary activities will take place in line with the new donor agreements with the governments of Germany and France. These planned activities, as explained below, are necessary in anticipation of the full project development for 2019-2022. In addition, the preparatory phase will allow operational continuity before the full Project Document is in place.\r\n\r\nGRASP underwent an independent review in 2012 and the key suggestion was to “perform on a higher plane” and use the strategic position within the UN to influence environmental policy. Also, activities under the two largest contributions were evaluated, the EC grant (2006 to 2010) and LifeWeb (2009-2014). GRASP was also evaluated when UNEP did an evaluation of its GEF projects because a non-GEF project was chosen for comparison purposes. Discussions have been held with the UN Environment Evaluation Office and based on the aforesaid and the fact that there are no funds for the current GRASP project to undertake a terminal evaluation, the approach is to carry out an independent evaluation at an early stage of the full project implementation. Findings would then steer implementation for the remaining part of project delivery. Informal lessons learnt from implementation of the current GRASP project will be factored into design of the full project. \r\n","ActualStartDate":"2018-12-31","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"2019-01-01","EndDate":"2021-07-31","ProjectManager":"Johannes Refisch","ProjectManagerEmail":"johannes.refisch@un.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Global"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"}]}],[{"projectID":"02047","ProjTitle":"Africa\u2019s Coexistence Landscapes: Securing their future for people, wildlife and other wildlife","ProjStatus":"Ongoing","ProjSummary":"Project Objective & Executive Summary:\r\nFuture security and wellbeing of people, elephants and other wildlife in key coexistence landscapes in Africa ensured.\r\nAfrica’s elephants and other wildlife are increasingly at risk of losing their remaining habitats, movement corridors and dispersal areas as a result of the unprecedented scale and pace at which natural landscapes are being converted to human use across the continent. In addition, the effects of climate change are already being felt across the continent through expanding aridity, increasing temperatures and extreme weather events, causing disruptions to food production systems, fueling insecurity and human migration. However, despite the rapid changes underway, many landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa still have significant tracts of connected habitat, and large populations of iconic species, including the African elephant.\r\nThe objective of the Africa’s Coexistence Landscapes (ACL) Project is to lay a foundation to help secure the most important of these landscapes for the benefit of both people and wildlife. Without this, the resilience of growing human populations to changing environmental, security and economic conditions, will be severely undermined, and the remaining populations of Africa’s globally important wildlife assets will likely disappear at a rapidly increasing rate. This project addresses the urgent need to find solutions that will enhance the wellbeing of both people and wildlife living together with or in close proximity to one another across these remaining natural landscapes. \r\nBy providing a strong base of information, evidence, and visualisation tools, the project will assist governments, development assistance agencies and other landscape actors to identify priority planning needs and significant changes in policies, processes and investments needed to support coexistence between people and wildlife in critical coexistence landscapes. The project will also explore policy options and alternative financing mechanisms to help inform and support ongoing policy and planning approaches that better enable people, elephants and other wildlife to coexist in the future, and to better inform national, regional, continental and international decision-making. \r\nThe ACL project is one of four regional subprojects contemplated in the UN Environment Landscapes, Wildlife and People (LWP) Framework Project, which was approved by the Ecosystems Division Director on 3 September 2018, and which contributes to the implementation of UN Environment’s Healthy and Productive Ecosystems Subprogramme under the UN Environment Medium Term Strategy 2018-2021. As such, the ACL project is expected to make a significant contribution to the HPE Subprogramme’s Expected Accomplishments, in particular EA(a) concerning institutionalizing ecosystem approaches at the national and international levels.\r\nUN Environment is uniquely well placed to deliver on the project because of several key comparative advantages, namely the organisation’s convening power, its expertise in environmental policy formulation and influencing policies, and its track record with promoting interdisciplinary approaches, applying knowledge and science, and in environmental communications and awareness-raising, all of which are critical to the project’s success.\r\n","ActualStartDate":"2019-02-26","ActualEndDate":null,"StartDate":"","EndDate":"2021-11-30","ProjectManager":"Julian Blanc","ProjectManagerEmail":"Julian.Blanc@unep.org","regions":[{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Europe"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"North America"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Asia and the Pacific"},{"region":"Western Asia"},{"region":"Latin America and the Caribbean"},{"region":"Africa"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Global"},{"region":"Africa"}],"subprogrammes":[{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Climate change"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Resource efficiency"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Healthy and productive ecosystems"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"},{"subprogramme":"Environmental governance"}]}]]